Generative AI and Foundation Models, what’s in it for us, developers?

As developers, our first contact with Generative AI has most likely been Github Copilot and ChatGPT. They are end-user usages of Foundation and Large Language Models.

But what are Foundation Models? What are Large Language Models? How are they related? How do they work? What are the use cases they cover? How can we use them? Do they replace all existing AI services? What is prompt engineering? What is an agent? What does RAG mean?

In this session, I answer to those questions and try to demystify Generative AI from a developer perspective. I will illustrate all my talking points with demos.